Tag: Gila Bend Arizona

Have you read Anne Tyler’s The Accidental Tourist? I read it years ago and despite the vicious book purges I’m prone to, it’s managed to maintain a spot on one of the wood bookshelves that cower in our basement. In my house, it’s the safest place for old books. I go down there so infrequently, all that nostalgia and young love actually stands a chance at survival.

I guess everything comes around again. Jean Rhys’s The Wide Sargasso Sea has been calling to me lately from that subterranean lair along with That Kind of Woman (a terrific short story collection). … Read more

About Me

Julie lives in a small town in western Massachusetts with her husband, children and a menagerie of variously sized animals. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program and a M.S. in Microbiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Some of Julie's favorite things include gummy candies, loose teas, and standing desks.